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Throughout The Great American Chocolate Chip Cookie Book, a new history of the iconic sweet, author Carolyn Wyman sprinkles pop culture trivia and recipes, both fabled and new. Below, her twist on whoopie pies, the classic vanilla crème-filled cake sandwich. “This chocolate chip version is among the more tame whoopie flavor variations available since the whoopie became all the rage at upscale bake shops,” she writes. “It’s much better than lemon lavender, believe me.”